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Title: | Symposium: African Studies and the Challenge of the 'Global' in the 21st Century |
Editor: | Byfield, Judith |
Year: | 2016 |
Periodical: | Africa Today (ISSN 1527-1978) |
Volume: | 63 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 52-139 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | African studies globalization conference papers (form) |
External link: | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/646138/pdf |
Abstract: | This part issue presents contributions to a symposium entitled 'African studies and the challenge of the 'global' in the 21st century', sponsored by the Indiana University-Bloomington (IUB) African studies program on April 29, 2016. Contributions: African studies and the challenge of the global in the 21st century (Judith Byfield); Africa in the world (Mamadou Diouf); African studies: new directions, global engagements (Jamie Monson); Area studies and the global at Wisconsin and beyond (James Delehanty); Area studies and the challenges of creating a space for public debate (Beth Buggenhagen); Repositioning Africa within the global (Pedro Machado); What's wrong with doing good? Reflections on Africa, humanitarianism, and the challenge of the global (Michelle Moyd); African studies and the global: a commentary (John H. Hanson); Graduate students roundtable introduction (Akin Adesokan); African studies, global studies, and disciplinary positioning (Cathryn E. Johnson); A cosmopolitan social justice approach to education (Oliver Y. Shao); Read Africans, decenter scholarship (Samson Ndanyi); Studying African literature in the age of the global (Meg Arenberg); Techniques of the global: race, territory, and the coloniality of reason (Zachary Baker); Breaking the mold of disciplinary area studies (Premesh Lalu); Pluralicity and relationality: new directions in African studies (Eva Spies and Rüdiger Seesemann). Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |